Cross­Fit is the prin­ci­pal strength and con­di­tion­ing pro­gram for many police acad­e­mies and tac­ti­cal oper­a­tions teams, mil­i­tary spe­cial oper­a­tions units, cham­pion mar­tial artists, and hun­dreds of other elite and pro­fes­sional ath­letes worldwide.

Our pro­gram deliv­ers a fit­ness that is, by design, broad, gen­eral, and inclu­sive. Our spe­cialty is not spe­cial­iz­ing. Com­bat, sur­vival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fit­ness and, on aver­age, pun­ish the specialist.

The Cross­Fit pro­gram is designed for uni­ver­sal scal­a­bil­ity mak­ing it the per­fect appli­ca­tion for any com­mit­ted indi­vid­ual regard­less of expe­ri­ence. We’ve used our same rou­tines for elderly indi­vid­u­als with heart dis­ease and cage fight­ers one month out from tele­vised bouts. We scale load and inten­sity; we don’t change programs.

The needs of Olympic ath­letes and our grand­par­ents dif­fer by degree not kind. Our ter­ror­ist hunters, skiers, moun­tain bike rid­ers and house­wives have found their best fit­ness from the same regimen.

Thou­sands of ath­letes world­wide have fol­lowed our work­outs posted daily on this site and dis­tin­guished them­selves in com­bat, the streets, the ring, sta­di­ums, gyms and homes.

Fit­ness In 100 Words

• Eat meat and veg­eta­bles, nuts and seeds, some fruit, lit­tle starch and no sugar. Keep intake to lev­els that will sup­port exer­cise but not body fat. Prac­tice and train major lifts: Dead­lift, clean, squat, presses, c&j, and snatch. Sim­i­larly, mas­ter the basics of gym­nas­tics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to hand­stand, pirou­ettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these ele­ments in as many com­bi­na­tions and pat­terns as cre­ativ­ity will allow. Rou­tine is the enemy. Keep work­outs short and intense. Reg­u­larly learn and play new sports. “cour­tesy of Cross­Fit Inc”

Crossfit’s Fit­ness

For Cross­Fit the specter of cham­pi­oning a fit­ness pro­gram with­out clearly defin­ing what it is that the pro­gram deliv­ers com­bines ele­ments of fraud and farce. The vac­uum of guid­ing author­ity has there­fore neces­si­tated that CrossFit’s direc­tors pro­vide their own def­i­n­i­tion of fit­ness. That’s what this issue of Cross­Fit Jour­nal is about, our “fitness.”

Our pon­der­ing, study­ing, debat­ing about, and finally defin­ing fit­ness have played a for­ma­tive role in CrossFit’s suc­cesses. The keys to under­stand­ing the meth­ods and achieve­ments of Cross­Fit are per­fectly imbed­ded in our view of fit­ness and basic exer­cise science.

Cour­tesy of Cross­Fit, Inc 

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